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How to Use Artificial Intelligence

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How can AI be helpful for writing?

  • Grammar: AI can answer you questions about grammar and give you feedback on your use of English.
  • Style Checks: AI tools like Copilot can help you identify and correct errors in academic style and improve sentence structure.
  • Content Generation: AI can help you brainstorm ideas, create outlines, and even generate content based on your prompts, helping you get started on your writing projects.
  • Paraphrasing and Summarising: AI can help you paraphrase short texts and summarise longer texts such as articles or papers to grasp the main points quickly.
  • Citations and References: AI can help you manage your references, format them  correctly, and create Reference sections in the style you have to use.
  • Planning: AI can suggest ways to structure your academic essays, reports, presentations, etc.

Example of how Copilot can help you with writing

Here's an example of how Copilot can help with academic writing.

Mo logs in to his student account and asks Copilot:

Can you check this paragraph for academic writing?
"So, like, nurses are super important and help people feel better and stuff. They have to know loads of things, like how to fix people when they’re sick or whatever. Also, being a nurse is kinda stressful ‘cause patients can be annoying sometimes, but it’s all good, right? Nurses need to be smart and work hard, duh, because hospitals are busy places. Oh, and teamwork is a thing, so you need to get along with, like, doctors and other people. Nursing is all about caring, so that’s nice, I guess. Anyways, being a nurse is hard but cool."

Copilot replies:

Copilot has offered to write it for Mo, but Mo wants to learn, so he asks:

How can I improve my ability to write academically?

Copilot answers:

Mo replies:

Thanks. What can I do now to improve my paragraph - I don't have much time.

Copilot quickly gives a list of suggestions:

Copilot has given very accurate and useful feedback and suggestions. However, it has also written a revised version of the paragraph for Mo. It would be easy for Mo to copy and paste Copilot's paragraph, but this would be a mistake:

  • firstly, it would be obvious to his teachers that it was not Mo's own work, and
  • secondly, he would learn nothing.

So, he studies the new version so that he can see how Copilot has changed it, and when he is happy that he has understood Copilot's advice, he re-drafts his original paragraph for himself.

True / False Question

You can upload your text to LSBU's Copilot to get feedback. 
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